CVE-2009-2070

Summary

Opera displays a cached certificate for a (1) 4xx or (2) 5xx CONNECT response page returned by a proxy server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an arbitrary https site by letting a browser obtain a valid certificate from this site during one request, and then sending the browser a crafted 502 response page upon a subsequent request.

Impact & exploitability

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

• NVD record
• http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323
• http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35411